Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2010-11-04 11:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins\u2014James Bay, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2144360\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I listened to my hon. colleague. Again and again he said that this was all about politics. To him, it was like a hockey game. It was not like a hockey game for the people in Timmins and Sudbury who raised concerns with the government and expected the government to do the right thing.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144361\" data-originallang=\"en\">If we go back four years, when we raised questions in the House, and he can look at <em>Hansard</em>, we raised questions about what would happen to the copper refining capacity in Ontario if the Xstrata hostile takeover went through. The government had the same kind of glib, cheap answers that it gives today.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144362\" data-originallang=\"en\">At the time, no one suggested that the Xstrata deal be stopped. What people were saying was that we had the opportunity to create a world-class mining giant with the Inco and Falconbridge merger, which was being held up in regulatory processes in the United States. The only thing we asked for was that the government hold off a corporate raider like Xstrata until a Canadian bid had a chance to get to the table. The government said, \u201cAbsolutely not\u201d.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144363\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do not know if the hon. member has ever visited northern Ontario. If he came, he would see the damage to the Canadian mining industry because of the Xstrata and Vale situation. Would he now admit that the government made a colossal blunder? Hopefully the government has learned a few lessons on potash.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2144360\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, j'ai \u00e9cout\u00e9 les propos de mon coll\u00e8gue. Il a r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 maintes reprises qu'il s'agissait seulement de politique. Pour lui, c'\u00e9tait comme une partie de hockey. Ce n'\u00e9tait pas le cas pour les habitants de Timmins et de Sudbury qui ont exprim\u00e9 leurs inqui\u00e9tudes aupr\u00e8s du gouvernement et qui s'attendaient \u00e0 ce que ce dernier prenne les mesures qui s'imposaient.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144361\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il y a quatre ans, nous avons pos\u00e9 des questions \u00e0 la Chambre \u2014 le d\u00e9put\u00e9 peut consulter le hansard \u00e0 ce sujet \u2014 sur ce qui arriverait aux installations de raffinage du cuivre en Ontario si la prise de contr\u00f4le hostile par Xstrata se concr\u00e9tisait. Le gouvernement a alors donn\u00e9 le m\u00eame genre de r\u00e9ponses faciles qu'il donne aujourd'hui.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144362\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'\u00e9poque, personne n'a sugg\u00e9r\u00e9 qu'il fallait emp\u00eacher la transaction avec Xstrata. Les gens disaient que nous avions la possibilit\u00e9 de cr\u00e9er un g\u00e9ant minier de calibre mondial gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la fusion de Inco et de Falconbridge, fusion qui \u00e9tait retard\u00e9e par les processus r\u00e9glementaires am\u00e9ricains. La seule chose que nous avons demand\u00e9e \u00e9tait que le gouvernement tienne \u00e0 distance un pr\u00e9dateur tel que Xstrata jusqu'\u00e0 ce qu'une entreprise canadienne puisse pr\u00e9senter une soumission. Le gouvernement a r\u00e9pondu: \u00ab Il n'en est pas question. \u00bb</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2144363\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'ignore si le d\u00e9put\u00e9 s'est d\u00e9j\u00e0 rendu dans le Nord de l'Ontario. S'il le faisait, il constaterait les dommages que la situation avec Xstrata et Vale a caus\u00e9s au secteur minier canadien. Reconna\u00eetra-t-il maintenant que le gouvernement a fait une gaffe colossale? Esp\u00e9rons que le gouvernement a appris quelques le\u00e7ons sur la potasse.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2010/11/4/charlie-angus-3/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/charlie-angus/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1434/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3471551",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Business of Supply",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Foreign Takeovers",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2010/11/4/",
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